The Woman-Identified Woman
The Woman-Identified Woman is a manifest distributed by the Radical Lesbians during the National Organization for Women (NOW) conference of 1970.
The text was entirely composed in Vendôme font, letter by letter. As we did not have enough letters to compose everything at once (the letter-case is made for french, the text is in english : we were very short on "w"), we had to split the composition. The text was printed in 6 different parts. The title and the quote were both printed seperately. As a result, each of the 250 posters we made required 8 passes on the press. Thats about 2 000 passes, plus those we had to do for calibration.
We wrote on social medias (in french) about the political meaning and technical workarounds for this project.
Queer Nation Manifesto
The Queer Nation Manifesto is a manifest distributed by people walking with the Act Up group during the New York Gay Pride of 1990. It originated the Queer Nation mouvement across the USA.
As for the Woman-Identified Woman, the text was composed in Vendôme font, letter by letter. We printed extract of the text, using the French translation from Infokiosques.net.
Again, we wrote on social medias (in french) about the political meaning of the text and the technical tidbits we encountered.